1. Maybe Kagan realizes Bernacke will just print the money used to pay the states. So it is free (monopoly) money.
2. Maybe the role of the states is not to protect the freedoms of its residents and not to accept free bribes to abridge the freedoms of the people.
1. If Bernake isn’t careful the only thing the US dollar will be good for is toilet paper. (See Germany early 30s)
2. If the enough states get together and start rejecting the funding coming from Washington, it will shift power back to the states. The problem is that the states are addicted to the dollars collected by the IRS and redistributed freely.